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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most…
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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad…
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We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober…
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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind…
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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
— Robert Burns
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -…
— Laurence Sterne
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... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going…
— Nicholas Cresswell
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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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